What happens to a soul lost to sucide?
As some of you know, I lost my mother in September. She was a paranoid schizophrenic. I was completely unware her health was that bad, so I was stunned to find out she had committed sucide. It has been hard and I still struggle with it everyday. One of her old friends called me the other day. She had just gotten word that my mother had passed. That brought all the emotion back and I was in tears. This has really been on my mind though since her death: What happens to a soul lost to sucide??
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Permalink Reply by Twisted Pixie on -
lol... IQ? Which IQ?
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Permalink Reply by Xoc on -
Most pagan paths do not have the same attitude towards suicide, moreso, in some ancient cultures it was considered a very honorable death.
Japanese culture is like this.
In ancient Mayan culture they had a goddess name Ixtab, goddess of suicide. She whisked those who killed themselves to paradise.
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Permalink Reply by Doc Molotov on -
wasn't she also the corn goddess, or am I remembering what little I know of Mayan culture all wrong?
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Permalink Reply by AlanHeartsong on -
My dear, I'm so sorry for your loss. I lost my older sister Maureen the same way in 1996, and I know how painful it can be. Mom and I think that she may have had an undiagnosed bipolar disorder, which was exacerbated by the recreational drugs and alcohol she was using. She and I always had a very strong psychic connection, and she "popped in for a visit" a few months after her suicide. She's fine on the other side of the veil, and said she was keeping busy with "assignments" (and wouldn't explain) until the powers that be thought she was ready for another incarnation.
I don't think anything different happens to those of us who die from suicide than any other way, though the suicide folks may have a little extra healing to do and some more "rest time" than the rest of us.
Big hugs your way,
Alan
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Permalink Reply by MoonLover on -
Your "visit" from your sister adds to my belief of a suicide. I believe if you take your own life (before it's time) that you must learn the lessons you were suppose to learn here, on the other side. I feel those that take their own life for whatever reason will have to continue with their "learning" on the other side before they can come back or be reincarnated. I think each of our souls come back to earth many times and each time we need to learn a new lesson before we can continue on to our next. Hope that makes sense?
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Permalink Reply by AlanHeartsong on
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Hehe, if she was having to learn lessons on the other side, she was having fun doing it. In her words "oh, I was a total mess, I couldn't possibly have made it, but things are much better now".
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Permalink Reply by m00nangel on -
American Witch, i feel your pain. I too lost my father in 2005 to suicide. I never knew he was ill and suffered mental illness. Until after he was gone, he was a very private man and didnt let others know too much.I have had a hard time with his death also, but I would like to say that with time, alot of thought on what happened to him and what happened between me and him,and help from friends and a therapist it has gotten easier to accept.
I am sorry, I do not have any answers to what happens to a loved one after they die this way.I will say this, after my dad died I was a member of the church and they let me know real quick that he was going to hell.I don't believe this. nor am i a member of the church anymore.Because... we don't know what happened during the time before they died.My father didnt die immediately, from what I was told so I believe he had time to ask whatever god he believed in for forgiveness and to save him. Id like to think his end was peaceful and where ever it is he went he is happy.As I believe your mother is,please don't cry anymore.She would rather you remember her and not grieve, and for you to be happy.
Blessed be
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Permalink Reply by Jamilynn on -
My mother was a Christian. Other Christians I have talked to have told me that since her mind was covered in sickness that it was not her"soul" that committed the act. Therefore since her "soul" was not able to think for itself, that she was like a child in a way and that God had accepted her to heaven based on that. I have tried to research this from a Wiccan standpoint and can find nothing. I kinda agree with MacAdam....that just makes more since to me...but, please, keep commenting, I want to here what everyone thinks and feels.
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Permalink Reply by Patrick on -
I believe there to be a universal solution to the universal side of this. I want to say this without sounding mean or anything but it could be that your mother was a defected soul, she had mental illness that tore at her mind. I believe that the mental illness was triggered in her like an expiration date, whatever purpose she had in life was fulfilled by the time that her mind was torn apart, and she simply reset her self. Now where does she go? I’m not so sure about a summer land but I do believe that she will either reincarnate or most likely what will happen is that her energy will be recycled to be used to help create new souls, kind of like a soylent green system.
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Permalink Reply by m00nangel on
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If your mother was christian... and yes mental illness is like any other i suppose would make a person like a child as they the person did the action not the soul. Some say that if you attempt suicide you are condemed in the Christian worlds. If thats the case I was condemed long ago.But myself i dont believe that either. I think your mom went to summerland or her heaven.My father the same.
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Permalink Reply by Maire Hel Wolf on -
Sympathies, my Dad offed himself as well.
Okay here's the Loophole, no Hell for your Mother.
Mental Illness will give you a golden ticket to Heaven, as Jesus said.
"Blessed are those poor in spirit (translation?), for they shall inherit the Heavenly Kingdom"(translation?).
It was common practise to declare successful suicidals as mentally ill to give them a place in holy burial ground, and that for centuries.
I can't help you with Wiccan because I am none. If you feel really unhappy about it I recommend praying the Rosary on a regular basis for her, even if your Mother was not Catholic. Rosary and all prayer related to Mother Mary equal Om Mani Padme Hum and will work for you also.
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